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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






3. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






4. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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5. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






6. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






7. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






8. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






9. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






10. Individual Educational Plan






11. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






12. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






13. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






14. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






15. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






16. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






17. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






18. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






19. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






20. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






21. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






22. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






23. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






24. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






25. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






26. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






27. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






28. Final stable syllable

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29. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






30. Multisensory Structured Language






31. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






32. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






33. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






34. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






35. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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37. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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38. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






40. Wide Range Achievement Test






41. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






42. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






44. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






45. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






46. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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47. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






48. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






49. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






50. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)